Cards

You may find this hard to believe, but I used to despise crafting and anything related. When I was a teenager I really did not like to do anything crafty at all. Even after I was first married I stayed away from that sort of stuff. But one day when I was at my friends house she was having people over to scrapbook, and told me that I should start scrapbooking. I had 2 kids and I loved to take pictures, it was perfect she said. Well I tried it and thought to myself "hey this is not too bad." And that my friends is where the obsession began. It all started with cute paper, and then it moved to cute fabrics (which unfortunately I am a huge sucker for!) and from there  . . . well I pretty much will try any craft related thing now. And I am totally okay with it - Conan loves it too, because he is an artist and was always telling me that I needed a hobby besides piano - because you cannot practice the piano when little ones are sleeping, it just does not work so well.

Today I have a few cards that I made for my girls birthday and baptism. I used to sell Stampin' Up and so I have way too many stamps and now I do not use them nearly often enough, because I do all my scrapbooking digitally. But I love to make cards, and my kids love to help me - so at least my stuff gets used more!

This first card was for her party. I like clean and simple things - if it is too busy I just don't like it as much. But like just about everything I make I copied this one from a magazine I got. She loved it and I let her help with all the punching. The banner is made from scallop circle punches folded in half.

This next card was for her baptism. (In my church we get baptized at age eight), and this was why we had so much family come into town. I love the stamp of the kids I used for this card. I let her use my watercolor pencils and color the kids.

 Isn't it funny how you can totally change your view of something over time. I am always curious what started people into crafting or if they have always been the crafty type, I would love for you to tell me what got you started into this hobby!